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liarbors a joke

thedavincimode

bhudson

Watching rerun of The Nation. Russel Norman being interviewed. Interviewed? They might as well have just asked the Greens for a press release – it would have saved money and provided no less actual scrutiny of Greens policy

Bill English has tried to dismiss as “not a priority” worthwhile bills like Paid Parental Leave and essential discussions on Super, so it’s very strange National are trying to progress a bill to jail non existent boat people.

Unless Nathan Guy can get support from the Maori Party or Winston “refusing to give any assurances” Peters his Clayton’s bill – a bill you have when you don’t need a bill – then it looks like failing at the second reading.

Peter Dunne has called the plans inhumane and said he would need a “mountain of persuasion” to change his mind and support it.

southtop

Wet Sunday morning – questions for day:
Is Benghazi going to destroy Obamas run to line?
Is it finally all over for Ali Williams now that some young Bird destroyed him in the line out?
When will we see a REAL political party on the right OR will Colin Craig step aside (but stay involved) if a leader not prone to foot in mouth could be found?

thedavincimode

bhudson

tvdm,

It would seem the magazine of silver bullets also includes exporting our renewable technology IP – it would seem that the rest of the world has not yet discovered these things we in NZ call the sun, wind and water. We could create and corner a global market here.

I wonder what the Chinese have been doing building photovoltaic cells much cheaper and undermining the German solar power manufacturing industry if they haven’t actually discovered renewable energy yet?

No matter. Rusesel has spoken – clearly we can do this better. Because we are smaller. And have less capital. And less infrastructure. And higher manufacturing costs. And greater transportation costs.

MT_Tinman

Warm and dry Sunday morning – answers for the day:

No; Unfortunately.
Who cares? The franchise no longer has any meaning.
Yes, if those involved finally realise that the slime will be against them and use other more honest media to get their point across and no.

thedavincimode

hudson

Our natural competitive advantage though, is that our sun, wind and water is greener than everybody else’s so that even if China’s ability to produce greeny stuff on production lines that produce about a gazillion units in the blink of an eye at one millionth of the cost of the same units produced here at a rate of one a week, our product will be greener and thereby more saleable at a price one million percent more than the Chinese product.

Viking2

Bteer still on a Sunday morning.
Seems someoen somewhere in the hllowed halls of power have been doing some thinking at last.

New Zealand has been tipped to quit the Kyoto Protocol, designed to cut global emissions.

Government officials next month travel to Doha in Qatar for the latest round of negotiations on the treaty, but with less than four weeks before the summit, acting Climate Change Minister Simon Bridges says the Government has “not made a decision” on its commitment.

“My understanding is that decisions have yet to be made on that matter,” he said.
But the actions of participants in the carbon market, and market signs, suggest the Government is preparing to walk away. It will soon pass legislation that critics claim will weaken an already ineffectual emissions trading scheme, the mechanism designed to put a price on carbon and encourage a transition to a lower-carbon economy.

it is said in government circles that China’s emissions increase daily by New Zealand’s entire annual carbon output.

Oh dear I’ve just realized that had fucked GD for the day. Luc and Wuzzell and all will be along shortly to fill the ionosphere with incoherent rambling about global warming and the demise of the world and peak oil et al.

“When party hosts turned away a gate crasher, he lunged at a 17-year-old party goer with a knife that cut across his stomach, almost disembowelling him,” Inspector Tracy Phillips said.

“Luckily an ambulance was within 60 metres of the scene dealing with an other unrelated matter and were able to assist the victim. Had they not been so close police could have been dealing with a homicide.”
—– IMHO, anyone carrying a knife that is used in this way should get 10 years automatic and anyone carrying should get 3 months immediate and automatic. We take away drivers licenses after some offenses like driving to fast but we allow bad bastards to carry knives and then have the priviledge of a lawuyer and going through a court process.
WHY????
If crusher is as tough as others think she should deal to this urgent.

Viking2

t may seem an unlikely alliance, but Judith Collins and Barack Obama are on the same page when it comes to drug crime.

The Justice Minister has just returned from a week-long trip to the US to see drug courts in session.

The $2 million New Zealand pilot was expected to deal with around 100 offenders a year and was forecast to reduce recidivism rates by around 8 per cent. “I’d like to hope we can do better,” Collins said.
————————
i.e. $20k per person. From the taxpayer.
Plus of course all the benfits etc that person already gets from the state(sorry taxpayer).

Yvette

… about 85 per cent of world carbon emissions are not covered by international reduction agreements, and it is said in government circles that China’s emissions increase daily by New Zealand’s entire annual carbon output.
…
The Sustainability Council’s Simon Terry said he did not expect New Zealand to accept a second set of Kyoto commitments in Doha, and he would not go himself because he could not justify the emissions produced to get there.
The Green Party last week tried to force the Government’s hand, arguing New Zealand should show leadership.
– http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/7873305/New-Zealand-may-quit-Kyoto

Leadership would be to entirely scrap the ETS
Again, where are the guys who thought it up …

Viking2

Plans for a gay men’s retirement village are on the drawing board in Auckland.

A group of ageing gays say they want to be able to retire among their peers, instead of facing potential discrimination in traditional, heterosexual rest homes.

The proposal at this stage is in its infancy, but may eventually result in the group buying units in an apartment building, sharing a swimming pool and garden, and hiring a care worker or “houseboy” to live in the complex.

Spokesman Mike Keegan said the village was first mooted after the community heard about a group of gay women who were also considering a retirement home.

“The lesbians were looking at the concept. So we said if the lesbians can do it why can’t the gay guys do it?” he said.

A survey conducted by the group of 60 gay men found 100 per cent would prefer a retirement lifestyle choice other than what was currently available.

Melbourne City Council elections were held yesterday. Not just Melbourne City, but over 80 councils across the state of Victoria.

Its compulsory to vote, otherwise you get a $50 fine! Every candidate has a “How to Vote Card”, ordering all candidates in order of preference. Every morning this week one of them has been handing them out at the train station on the way to work. When you vote, you can ignore their preference and just order yourself.

No less than 5 of my friends were standing for election, but none in my ward, so I couldn’t vote for any of them.

OneTrack

Viking @8:51 – “When his cover was blown he disappeared, and his bill is unpaid.”

Oh the horror – FFS – The guy has now gone into hiding because of the risk to his life and this trougher wants to be “paid”. Dick.

And the upper court judges are surprised that all the lower court judges dont see a problem with what the police did. Maybe thats because the upper court judges are wrong and completely out of touch. Nah, that couldnt be it, sitting cocooned in their ivory towers.Common sense – long gone.

Viking2

Hickey reckons he knows as well. Really Its all the fault of those who already own a house or as the Porrirua Mayor reckons his generation just can’t afford the 4 bedroom with ensuite, spare office inbulit garage, double glazzed insulated with every other conceivable mod con type house. Well of course not, we couldn’t either when we bought our first house. In fact mine was a wreck which I spent nights and weekends repairing way back in the 60’s. I didn’t own a cellphone nor a car nor evenm a telly. Just went and worked my arse off 60 hours a week for $25.00 a WEEK. (note. NOT $25 per hour like these entitled pricks.)
Too much I want and want it now so give it too me attitude.
Piss off the lazy.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10843323

Reid

PG @ 8:13. Boats are going to start arriving sooner rather than later, it’s amazing it hasn’t already happened. If they get here the boats will be the larger variety so we’re looking at around 200+ people each time and once it happens once it will start happening on a regular basis. Australia gets this many.

These are people who most likely aren’t well educated, they will have no money, they can’t speak English, they will have nothing but the clothes they arrive with, they could easily have significant diseases like tuberculosis or malaria which would cost us millions to treat. The human rights idiots don’t explain how this massive drain on resources which these people represent is supposed to be dealt with, all they do is wring their stupid hands and weep over the humanity. Which is not the point.

I predict what will happen with the first boatload is the human rights idiots will rush down to the beach and rend their clothes in anguish and then people like Deborah Manning and the media will make the whole issue into a media farce like what happened with Ahmed Zaoui. And the other boat people still to arrive or more correctly the people who make money from shipping them, will watch carefully to see what this country does with the first boat load of them.

The Immigration Protection Tribunal can’t be trusted to do its job, the predecessor of that body heard the Zaoui case and guess what they ruled: that the bank records from a French bank and a bank from some other European country, which showed Zaoui was in fact a terrorist bagman, couldn’t be relied on as a true and accurate record. Awwwwww. The poor thing. And the same idiotic thinking would be applied to these people too, unless there’s a statutory procedure for dealing with people who arrive like this: i.e. mass detention and hopefully, instant deportation.

Griff

Looks like Huey may get to vote in the USA elections
Sandy is heading to somewhere around New York with at present a 30% chance of flooding the subway system.
At the moment it is the biggest cyclone projected to directly hit the USA ever with storm force winds 520miles from the center

Viking2

Judges who trash prosecutions to punish breaches by particular Police officers seem to feel they have no lawful direct power over those they want to control or to punish. Perhaps the lawful procedure has what they consider to be inadequate sentence. Perhaps the process is cumbersome or gets less attention.

Viking2

Herald runnin gits usual non standard of Journalism.

On October 28, 2012 at 10:40 am Quentin Todd said:

I am a qualified Journalist not working the industry. I don’t like what the JOurnalist has done at all: The report is bias – which is against the rules – and – it does not relate to the Delamare story. To suggest otherwise, puts you John Ansell into the Nazi mould and that’s an unfair, inaccurate report.

calendar girl

The Motor Trade Association (MTA) is at it again today, spending solidly on radio advertising to scare motorists into believing that NZ needs to retain its high-cost, bureaucratic, Warrant-of-Fitness regime for motor cars. From the weight of the MTA’s advertising, one would believe that there is only one public voice on this issue

The Government has flown a WOF kite or two, and it’s pretty clear that reducing the present intensity of WOF requirements is generally favoured at Government level, but nothing concrete has yet emerged. Let’s hope it’s not too far away.

Long-overdue reform will not only reduce substantial dead-weight compliance costs in the economy, but will also be very popular electorally (so much so that the Government may be holding it back until Election year!).

Meanwhile, the MTA – with all its vested commercial interests on display – continues its political campaign against change, as it’s fully entitled to do. We should not be fooled, however. The MTA is intent on protecting the revenues of small garages and large testing stations throughout the country, not all (or many?) of which have proved themselves worthy of motorists’ patronage over the years. If the MTA succeeds, all of us as motorists will pay the costs – not only for the publicity campaign itself but also for the excessive WOF screening that we currently endure in the absence of any hard evidence of its cost-effectiveness.

Where is the million-member Automobile Association on this issue, as advocate for motorists? It’s been very quiet, I suggest, just as it’s never exactly vigorous in its public criticism of persistently homogenous pricing of petrol at “competitive” retail pumps. I hope that the AA’s relative silence on WOFs is not a result of the organisation becoming too chummy with the MTA in their respective roles.

Longknives

Reid- Re the boatpeople..
The first boatload to reach New Zealand shores will be greeted by a stellar cast of New Zealand ‘c’ list celebrities and Green Party Politicians. Dave Dobbyn will be down there with his guitar wailing out ‘Welcome Home’ as hundreds of feral boatpeople flock off the ship onto their new ‘home’. Robyn Malcolm and Keisha whatshername will be there having their photos taken with the new arrivals before heading home to their own luxurious diggings, and Debra Manning will be handing out her business card left,right and centre offering her services if any have problems with New Zealand’s ‘Pesky Authorities’.
The new arrivals will immediately be loaded onto a bus driven by Keith Locke and whisked straight to the nearest WINZ and Housing New Zealand offices where they can immediately start hoovering up our ‘Rich Prick’ money..and never have to work again.
After about the thirteenth or fourteenth boatload (long after Dave Dobbyn has packed his guitar and gone home) New Zealand will wake up and think “What the hell just happened”?

bc

RF

Bloody hell !!! I have just been wading through the slim over at the Sub Standard. It’s like a wasps nest with some very worried lefties who did not like the last Roy Morgan poll result. They are forming a lynch mob to go after the Labour front bench who in their opinion are MIA. Popcorn anyone.

bc

Reid @10.56
Agree totally. And Matt McCarten’s article was spot on too, particularly about the lack of accountability of judges.
There have been two disgusting verdicts by judges this week relating to child abuse and child neglect that show how out of touch some judges are.

Reid

Ever wondered why the music industry puts out so many videos laden with occult symbolism? Well now you know, don’t you. Or do you think it’s just all completely accidental? And that’s just one channel, they start with them when they’re kids. It’s called Princess programming and its designed to sexualise children at younger and younger ages.

Manolo

Reid

It has been claimed that CIA agents on the ground during the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi twice asked for permission to help Ambassador Chris Stevens and twice were told to stand down.

Furthermore sources present during the deadly six-hour assault have said that a desperate last request for military assistance once the CIA themselves came under attack was denied, even though elite counter-terrorism units were only two hours away.

And it has been claimed there was full communication between the CIA annex in Benghazi and the U.S. military, casting further doubts on the Obama administration’s assertion that there wasn’t enough information to deploy forces – deepening the crisis over their handling of the attack on September 11th and its aftermath

Paulus

When will people realise that when the NZ$ goes lower against other currencies, particularly the US$ everything we import goes up in price balancing the increase in the $value of our exports.
Particularly as Oil (Motor Fuel) and Milk powder are paid in US$ the effect will nullify itself in a form of balancing act.
Generally if the price of fuel oil imports goes up so does all forms of transport upon which we have to bear the inflationary price increases. All the new cars, televisions, computers and many others are all imported. Idoubt if Harvey Normans and/or Farmers have anything not made overseas.
Much of our supermarket food for example is imported either in part or the whole.
Print money – the Pokies would love it as it would not make in a short time little difference.
Obama has printed three times US$17 TRILLION in all which as had no effect on jobs or the economy, only the drug trade and the mafia who say thanks for the cash.

Brian Smaller

@Reid – I read today that the General in charge of AFRICOM was relieved of his command when he told his superiors he was ignoring Stand Down orders and sending assets in to protect US nationals under attack in Benghazi. Of course, Obama knew nothing.

calendar girl

bc @ 11:57 – Thanks for that. I’m delighted that the AA has taken a “clear position” against the current WOF regime. Trouble is, I’ve never heard it, and people I’ve discussed the WOF issue with haven’t heard it either. When will the AA begin to counter the MTA’s vested-interest stance with its own advertising, in the interests of its 1m motorist members?

Nostalgia-NZ

Nostalgia-NZ

I heard the AA talking on the radio about WOF. They provided statistics which showed the majority of accidents were caused by problems with tyres which wouldn’t necessarily show up in the current 6 month time span anyway calendar girl.
Furthermore they pointed out that the national fleet is ‘newer’ now than in the past. They also gave information that even 12 month warrants would be high compliance by world standards, as well as the fact that around 40% (can’t remember exact figure) of vehicles involved in accidents don’t have current WOFs so miss the ‘targeting’ anyway.
That changed my mind on the situation.

calendar girl

Thanks, Nostalgia. Yes, the case seems pretty clear to all but the MTA which is spending big dollars to convince us (or just the Government?) of the “opposite of the obvious”. All I anticipate is that unnecessary costs imposed on motorists by this WOF make-work scheme will be removed as soon as practicable. I have previously advocated a compromise transition arrangement in respect of WOFs for private cars – i.e. Class 1 driver’s licence vehicles – along the following lines:

Step 1: The Government should announce now (legislation as necessary) an appropriate date in the first half of 2013 from which a six-monthly WOF will be required only for vehicles older than 10 years of age at the time the then-current WOF lapses. Otherwise, a 12-monthly WOF will be the norm.

Step2: The Government should announce at the same time that all vehicles will be able to qualify for a 12-month WOF five years later, thereby taking account of improvements in vehicle construction and safety features that are still emerging.

A plan such as this would represent a fairly moderate compromise between current expensive – and oppressive – WOF requirements and the Government retaining a less draconian framework for independent vehicle screening. Obviously, the law needs to be clear at all times on the driver’s responsibility for ensuring the safe condition of any car that he/she drives.

[My views relate only to normal passenger vehicles. I simply don’t know what WOF/COF requirements should apply to other classes of vehicles, especially large freight trucks that obviously have their own special safety issues on the roads.]

thedavincimode

Nostalgia-NZ

I’ll go for that Calendar Girl with one proviso, cars on 6 monthly spans that have done less than 5,000 ks since the last check would just get a rewrite WOF and a full test the next time.
This would justifiably take out a large group of motorists who do little mileage perhaps because of age or impairment, infrequent driving, or that their car is a project vehicle, (vintage, restored of some type.)

Kevin

Viking2

Do you fart in bed?

This is a story about a couple who had been happily married for years, the only friction in their marriage was the husband’s habit of farting loudly every morning when he awoke the noise would wake his wife and the smell would make her eyes water and make her gasp for air. every morning she would plead with him to stop ripping them off because it was making her sick. he told her he couldn’t stop it and that it was perfectly natural. She told him to see a doctor, she was concerned that one day he would blow his guts out. the years went by and he continued to rip them out. Then one Christmas day morning, as she was preparing the turkey for dinner and he was upstairs sound asleep, she looked at the innards, neck, gizzard, liver and all the spare parts, and a malicious thought came to her. She took the bowl and went upstairs where her husband was sound asleep and, gently pulling the bed covers back, she pulled back the elastic wa
istband of his underpants and emptied the bowl of turkey guts into his shorts. Sometime later she heard her husband waken with his usual trumpeting which was followed by a blood curdling scream and the sound of frantic footsteps as he ran into the bath room. The wife could hardly control herself as she rolled on the floor laughing, tears in her eyes! after years of torture she reckoned she had got him back pretty good. About twenty minutes later, her husband came downstairs in his blood stained underpants with a look of horror on his face. She bit her lip as she asked him what was the matter. he said, “honey you were right.” “all these years you have warned me and I didn’t listen to you”. “What do you mean?” asked his wife. “Well, you always told me that one day I would end up farting my guts out, and today it finally happened, but by the grace of god, some vaseline and two fingers. I think I got most of them back in.”
😆 😆 😆 😆

Griff

A magnitude-7.7 earthquake has struck off the coast of western Canada and a tsunami warning has been issued Saturday night. There are no immediate reports of damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado says the quake hit the Queen Charlotte Islands at 11.14pm Sunday local time and was centered 96 miles south of Masset, British Columbia.
The National Weather Service has issued a warning for coastal areas of British Columbia, southern Alaska, Northern California, Oregon and Washington state. It says the warning area includes Craig and Sitka, Alaska.

nasska

Viking2

No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference
between the two words, COMPLETE and FINISHED. In a recently held
linguistic competition held in London, England attended by the best in the
world Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese man from Bachelors Adventure was the
clear winner with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes.

His final question was this:
Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. “How
do you explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that
is easy to understand?”

Here is his astute answer:
“When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE .
And when you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED . And when the right
one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!”

Kea

I did not get around to watching any footy last night Longknives. I was out on the town having a few drinks with a mate and some lovely “ladies”, while bereal sat staring longingly into the tv at his beloved Ab’s with their sweaty bodies and tight shorts.

I don’t judge him for that. One of my good mates is not so keen on the ladies either (but even he does not watch the Ab’s)